Aleh Byabenin

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This week, CPJ published its year-end analysis of
work-related fatalities among journalists. Six of the 42 victims worked online.
While you can read the full statistics and our special report elsewhere, I want to highlight
the stories of these six journalists who worked on the Web.

At least 42 journalists are killed in 2010
as two trends emerge. Suicide attacks and violent street protests cause an
unusually high proportion of deaths. And online journalists are increasingly prominent
among the victims. A CPJ special report

New York, December 3, 2010--The Committee to Protect
Journalists is concerned that Belarusian prosecutors have closed their investigation
into the September death of Aleh Byabenin, founder and director of the
Minsk-based, pro-opposition news website Charter 97. Authorities said Wednesday
that they did not find evidence of foul play.

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New York, September 8, 2010--Belarusian authorities must thoroughly investigate the circumstances surrounding the death of Aleh Byabenin, founder and director of the Minsk-based pro-opposition news website Charter 97, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.

Byabenin's brother and several friends found the journalist hanging from a stairway in his summer house outside the capital city of Minsk on Friday at around 5 p.m., Natalya Radina, editor of Charter 97, told CPJ. Byabenin had made plans with friends Thursday afternoon to go to the movies the same evening, but failed to show up at the theater, Radina said.